After months of informally listing an ag accelerator as a possible priority, the Greater Des Moines Partnership and Cultivation Corridor have drawn support from four firms to make the idea happen.
The ag startup accelerator, to be modeled after the Global Insurance Accelerator, has drawn separate $100,000 investments from DuPont Pioneer, Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co., John Deere and Peoples Co. The ag accelerator is meant to help build entrepreneurial efforts in ag technology, especially in hardware and software. The effort will be named later by a board that will include representatives of each investor.
